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Aggress

Aggress \Ag*gress"\, v. t. To set upon; to attack. [R.]

Aggress

Aggress \Ag*gress"\, n. [L. aggressus.] Aggression. [Obs.]

Their military aggresses on others.
--Sir M. Hale.

Aggress

Aggress \Ag*gress"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Aggressed; p. pr. & vb. n. Aggressing.] [L. aggressus, p. p. of aggredi to go to, approach; ad + gradi to step, go, gradus step: cf. OF. aggresser. See Grade.] To commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to make an attack; -- with on.

2. take the initiative and go on the offensive, as in a game.

Syn: attack

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
aggress

"attack," 1714, back-formation from aggression, but used earlier with a sense of "approach" (1570s) and in this sense from French aggresser, from Late Latin aggressare, frequentative of Latin aggredi "to approach, attack." Related: Aggressed; aggressing.\n\n\n

Wiktionary
aggress

n. aggression. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To set upon; to attack. 2 (context intransitive construed with '''on''' English) To commit the first act of hostility or offense against; to begin a quarrel or controversy with; to make an attack against.

WordNet
aggress

v. take the initiative and go on the offensive; "The Serbs attacked the village at night"; "The visiting team started to attack" [syn: attack]

Usage examples of "aggress".

We have already seen that feeling put-down may cause us to aggress to inflate our ego.

As a result one may aggress towards objects as an acceptable outlet of the aggression.

First of all it is very common and, secondly, it upsets at least two people--the aggressor and the aggressed against.

There are two problems: how to prevent or control your own anger and how to handle someone aggressing against you.